The Baum Bugle

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The Baum Bugle: A Journal of Oz is the official journal of The International Wizard of Oz Club. The journal was founded in 1957, with its first issue released in June of that year (to a subscribers' list of sixteen). It publishes three times per year, with issues dated Spring, Autumn, and Winter; Issue No. 1 of Volume 50 appeared in the Spring of 2006. The journal publishes both scholarly and popular articles on L. Frank Baum, the Oz books written by Baum and other writers, and related subjects, plus reviews of Oz-related films and theater productions, rare photographs and illustrations, and similar materials.

Among the range of articles published in The Baum Bugle:

"The Tiger's Eye: A Jungle Fairy Tale," a rare short story by Baum, Spring 1979;

"Dorothy Gage and Dorothy Gale," by Sally Roesch Wagner, discussing the familial connection between the Baums and the name Dorothy, Autumn 1984;